System-initiated role switching produced more role switches than free collaboration in DPP¶

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q2 i? The experimental group with system-initiated role switches had a higher average number of role changes per project than the control group, a statistically significant difference in all projects (p < 0.05). → Tsompanoudi et al. 2015

Evidence¶

Tsompanoudi et al. 2015¶

Despina TSOMPANOUDI, Maya SATRATZEMI, Stelios XINOGALOS. (2015). Distributed Pair Programming Using Collaboration Scripts: An Educational System and Initial Results. Informatics in Education. https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2015.17

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Interaction analysis of logged session data from the 8-week evaluation with 24 pairs compared role-switch frequencies between the structured (experimental) and free (control) collaboration conditions. The article reports "a statistically significant difference between experimental and control group was found in all projects (p < 0.05)".

"The experimental group, whose role switches were initiated by the system or manually, had in average a higher number of role changes in each project (Fig. 4). The control group had at least 4.8 role changes in average and 8.5 at maximum."

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